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This film documents NASA’s December 21 to December 27, 1968 manned mission to orbit the Moon. The film shows the activities of astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders,…

Today’s fighter pilot culture has its origins in World War I. In this program, military historian Michael Hankins revealed the airmen behind the romanticized facades, and described how…

BBC Washington Correspondent Gary O’Donoghue and Agence France-Presse US Politics Correspondent Elodie Cuzin discussed the recent political upheaval in Britain and France and overall…

Iowa State University hosted a panel discussion on Watergate’s lessons and their implications for future presidents. Panelists included former Congressman Edward Mezvinsky who served on the House…

Historians Jay Winik and Doris Kearns Goodwin discussed the qualities of character that they believe are essential for Presidential leadership in challenging times. Much of the discussion with…

The Robert Miller House is one of the few structures in Lawrence that survived Quantrill’s Raid in 1863. The Miller’s were abolitionists who moved to Kansas prior to the Civil War and offered their home as a…

Former U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole is one of only a few women to have held cabinet positions in two different administrations. She married Bob Dole in 1975 and served as a Senator from North Carolina from…

The “Trail of Tears” gallery at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. looks at the national debate over the 1830 Indian Removal Act and its impact on southern tribes. Associate…

Lawrence, Kansas, was known as the center for the resistance against the Confederacy during the Civil War. Steve Novack, executive director at the Watkins Museum of History, explained the origins of the city and…

Former NASA astronaut James Lovell talked about his life and career. He was a veteran of the Gemini and Apollo missions. In 1968 he was command module pilot on Apollo 8, the first NASA mission to…

The first fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, intended for cattle, was built in the early 1900s. Penn State professor Mary E. Mendoza talked about how immigration and border barriers…

Consisting of letters, photographs, audio, and other forms of material, the Vietnam Center and Archive preserves the record of individuals who served during the Vietnam War. The center is home to largest…

Tour the city of Lawrence, Kansas with local historian and John Brown impersonator Kerry Altenbernd as he took our cameras through the city to highlight its history.

The Wilcox Collection is one of the largest assemblages of American left and right wing political literature in the country. Curator of the Wilcox Collection Becky Schulte highlighted items within the…

Bob Dole served Kansas in Congress from 1961 to 1996, when he became the Republican Presidential nominee. Audrey Coleman, assistant director and senior archivist at the Dole Institute of Politics, shared stories…

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2018 LCV Cities Tour” in Lawrence, Kansas, from October 20-24, 2018, to feature the history and literary life of the…

On August 7, 1998, truck bombs exploded almost simultaneously outside the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks killed 224, including 12 Americans, and…

University of North Florida Professor David Courtwright taught a class about changes in immigration demographics and the rise of nativism in the early 20th century.

Oklahoma State University professor Jared Eberle talked about Native American activism in the 1970s, including the Red Power Movement, and the occupation of Alcatraz and Wounded Knee. American…

Frank Borman talked about his life and career. He was a Gemini and Apollo astronaut who served as commander of Apollo 8, the first NASA mission to fly around the Moon. This interview was…